LR won't load catalog

Hello,
After moving my LR catalog to a new internal hard drive, I am no longer able to load my catalog. When I run it, I get the following warning: "The Lightroom catalog folder D:\Location cannot be used because the folder does not allow files to be created within it." Check the link to see the screenshot.
I've unchecked the "read only" attribute, thinking that was the problem, but that changed nothing. Even if that were a problem, I guess I'd still be able to run it, but not change anything.
Has anyone experienced this problem?
Thank you!
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Hello John,
I already changed permissions and applied it to the content as well. There was a lock file (Lightroom Catalog.lrcat.lock) in the folder, which I deleted, however, when I try to run LR, I get the same warning and the same lock file reappears. This seems to be a Windows issue, not LR, but hopefully someone will know what I need to do. What I've discovered while trying to fix this, is that if I run LR as an administrator (I run my PC as a power user), I can open the catalog. The quick fix for this would be to run LR as an admin, but that would mean that I need to move the settings from my account's folder to an admin folder.
Thanks once again...

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